My doctor recently recommended that I get a cardiac CT calcium scan to help stratify my risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).

CT scans are becoming a more commonly used tool to effectively determine a patient's future risk of heart disease and heart ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Using a heart scan in the emergency room to rule out heart attacks and other problems in low-risk patients with chest pain can save hospitals billions of dollars, researchers said ...

I lay on the bed of the CT scan at the Heart Hospital of Austin looking up at the ceiling as it moves into the CT tunnel. A voice through the speakers tells me to breathe in, hold my breath, then ...

A cardiac surgeon shares important health tests like ECG, ECHO, and CT Angio to detect heart problems early, reducing the ...

Know your heart attack risk early. Let's know the top 5 medical tests — from ECG to cholesterol and CT scan — that can help you detect heart problems before they strike.

A new study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that radiation from a high-resolution cardiac CT scan—the newest, noninvasive test for detecting heart disease—may ...

Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about the healthcare industry. Too much screening: CT scans to check patient’s hearts for excess plaque are unnecessary for low-risk ...

April 23, 2010 (Seoul, Korea) — A new study of the incidental lung cancers that show up on cardiac computed-tomography (CT) scans will likely perpetuate the ongoing debate over whether the possibility ...

ORWIGSBURG – Geisinger St. Luke’s Hospital unveiled a new CT scan machine Tuesday morning at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the hospital’s radiology suite. “The new scanner has the ability to capture ...

Mike Fackelmann had no reason to think he had heart disease. Although his cholesterol was a touch on the high side, he had never experienced any chest pains and had just passed a stress test with ...

New study from heart researchers at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City finds that routine coronary artery calcium CT ...